Valve



Patented Jan. 22, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFiCE.

WILLIAM H. PARKER AND CHARLES A. TAYLOR, OF DENVER, COLORADO,

VALVE.

Application filed September 10, 1827.

Our invention is a combined .coupling and valve actuating device and one ot its objects is to provide n'ieans t'or coupling a hose or pipe to a supply pipe and control the water supply to the hose or pipe.

Further the invention provides a valve attachment whereby a hose may be quickly attached or detached from a liquid supply valve and which is operable to actuate the valve to open or closed positions.

lVit-h the preceding and other objects and advantages in mind, the invention consists in the novel ,combination ot elen'lents, constructions and arrangement ot parts to be hereinafter specifically referred to, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention in use;

Figure 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a top plan view;

Figure el is a horizontal sectional view on line 4L-4 ot Figure 1; and i Figure 5 is a detail view of the invention.

Referring to the invention in detail a convention'al globe valve 5- att-ached to a fluid supply pipe which for example may be the service line for a hose, embodies a reciprocatory valve element 7.

Rotatable about laterally projecting studs 8, formed upon the casing ot the valve at diametrically opposite points are parallel disks 9, the latter having central openings 1() tor the reception ot the studs 8. To connect the. disks together longitudinally curved plates 11 are interposed therebetween at diametrieally opposite points and are formed with parallel. flanges 12, one of each plate of which is riveted to one disk, as at 13, while the other flange ot each plate detachably connected to the other disk by ren'iovable ifastenings 14 'tor-the purpose otl assembling the disks with the valve.

To raise and lower the gate valve to open or closed positions, incident to the rotation ot' the disks, parallel longitudinally curved slots 15 are provided in the disk and are eccentrically disposed with respect to the axis of the disks and receive oppositely projecting lugs 16 integrally formed with the upper end of the stem of the valve element. A hand lever 17 having one end pivotally secured on one of the studs S is welded or otherwise secured to one of the disks as at Serial No. 218,795.

18. It will be observed that. upon forward or backward movement of thel hand lever the valve element will be raised or lowered to open or closed position, dueto the eccentrieity ot the slots whose walls engage the lugs and cause vertical displacement of the lugs and valve element.

The invention provides means for quickly coupling a hose orotherconduit 19 with the globe valve and' for this purpose a female coupling member 2O is provided to receive a male coupling member 20 threaded into one end of the `globe valve casing. In order to positively hold the vfemale coupling member on the male coupling member parallel vlongitudinally curved and eccentrically eX- posed slots 21 are provided in the disks, and have tapered lateral branches or entrance slots 22 which open upon the edges of the disk to permit entrance of lateral lugs 23 termed on the male coupling member at diametrically opposite points and pass into the slots 21. These slots 21 are of a greater radius than the slots 15 and are disposed with their inner ends overlapping the slots 15. U-shaped straps 24 bridge the slots 21 at points adjacent the branch slots 22 and are riveted or otherwise secured to the disks as at 25 to hold the separated edge portions ot the disk caused by providing the slots 21 and 22 against distortion.

As illustrated in Figure 1 the `lugs 23 are substantially oval in cross section and are formed with grooves 2G which receive the walls ot `the slots 21 and 22 to retain the disks aga-inst lateral movement.

A gauge element or indicator 2G is carried by one of the disks for determining the position of the handle when the valve is in closed position.

To apply the hose and simultane `n1sly open the valve the female coupling is in-v sorted on the male coupling, the lugs pass into the entrance slots or branches to dispose the former adjacent ends of the slots 21. The hand lever is then rocked forwardly rotating the disk and causing the walls of the slots 21 to pass over the lugs bindingly engaging the same and thereby drawing the male coupling member into binding engagement with the 'female coupling member. Incident to this rotation' of the disk the walls of the slots 15 engaging the lugs 16, the valve element is raised to open position.

It will. be observed7 due to the binding C me engagement of the slots 21 with the lugs 23, the hand lever and valve will remain in this poeition regardless of the vibration caused by the :HOW of Water or other liquid through the valve, as Well as the holding coupling member in positive engagement with the female coupling'. To detach the hose and close 'the valve the hand lever is moved in the opgosite direction.

Vfhat is claimed. is:

l. In combination a valve, a pair of coupling` members one of which being' permanently attached to the valve and the other being inseitable thereon and provided with lateral lugs, a. pair of disks rotatably eupported adjacent the valve havingeccentric slot-eI engageable With the lugs to hold the detachable coupling` member on the xed coupling` member, and means operable by the rotation of the disks to open the valve and vice versa.

2. In combination a valve easing having a reciprocatory valve element, a coupling` member engageable with 'the valve casing and having a lateral lug thereon7 a disk rotatably supported upon one side of the valve casingand having eccentric slots therein, one of which being engageable with the lug;1 to draw the coupling member into engagement with the valve casing, and the other having` operative connection with the valve element to actuate the Same t0 open and closed positions.

Signed at Denver in the county of Denver and State of Colorado this 6th da7 of' September, A. D. 1927.

CHARLES A. TAYLOR. WILLIAM H. PARKER. 

